shabby quotes

Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.8.

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  The House of Mirth, bk.1, ch.1.

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